Second, the colony never exceeded a population of about 4500 or so. Not only couldn't the land have supported the million you claim, if you tried to stuff that many people into the sites of the two settlements, they'd be standing on each other's toes.
Skraelings. Inuit, Thule, Dorset. Greenland/Canada weren't void of humans when the Vikings arrived.
I knew Bilbo lived alone and never married, and took a young hobbit into his underground home to be his ward, but I thought the Batman parallels ended there. And wasn't Batman really straight anyway? I thought that the "Batman is gay" thing was a joke. And Aragorn is in love with Arwen. No, no. None of this adds up at all!
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I'm afraid I just can't squeeze any more in.
<Connery> Well that'sh what your mother shaid lasht night! </Connery>
Luke chapter 3 states that Jesus is the 75th generation after Adam. So if one even assume an average of 20 years per generation that would mean only 1500 years between Adam and Jesus. But the bible states that Adam lived to be over 800 years old and Noah lived close to 400 years old. But even giving a thousand years for each generation would only give 75,000 years between the first human and Jesus. Even that amount of time is not enough to explain how people got to all the far reaches of this planet and how there are different races. So one has to pick and choose what one believes from the bible since it is irrational to believe there were only 75 generations and that the flood covered the whole earth. To be rational and reasonable one would have to throw out a huge per cent of the bible which the early priest did not do.
So, you want to devolve a discussion of generic faith and rationality into a discussion of the internal consistency of the Abrahamic religious tradition? Okay. Genesis 11:9. It didn't take 1500 years to spread people across the world, nor 75,000. According to Genesis 11:9, God did it in an instant. The priests never threw out any percent of the Torah; they would have known the story of the Tower of Babel. Now can we get back on topic and discuss reason and faith, and how one does not negate the other?
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The "Watch Video" link seemed pretty clear to me.
Not to me; I'm looking at it from a different computer now, and it still has no "Watch Video" link. FF 3.6.3
This is what I see:
Idle: Iron Baby on Friday May 28, @10:51AM
Posted by kdawson on Friday May 28, @10:51AM
from the energizer-bunnies-beware dept.
I dare anyone to name something as emotionally satisfying as facing a seemingly insurmountable problem...and then finding a solution.
In a nutshell, this is exactly what's wrong with the United States circa 2010. This is a ridiculously dominionist viewpoint, common among the Christian Right. In a politico-religious context, dominionism is the tendency among some conservative politically-active Christians to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action. The goal is either a nation governed by Christians, or a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law.
So guess what, fuck you and your polluting cars. Fuck you and your idea that anyone who doesn't share your viewpoint is an "insurmountable problem". As far as your idea of a "solution" goes, let's just hope it's not the "final" variety.
Reminder: Posting to Internet forums while drunk is never a good idea. Sober up and re-read GP's comment.
If he says "Sweet!" and starts getting interested in the mechanics of programs, you can show him something far easier to edit: uncompiled code. If he doesn't care about editing (or even modding) games, or editing any program for that matter, then he's not going to want to code either.
That would be a surprising deduction to monks, theologians, and apologists of many faiths throughout the ages. Reason and rational thought are not the sole province of science. In fact, before the Enlightenment (in Europe), reason and rational thought were believed to be the province of priests and lawyers. Logic deals only with deduction based upon accepted assumptions. Assumptions about metaphysics are unprovable/unfalsifiable, so science can say nothing about it (the very topic of this article). Some people with faith will determine scientific results differently than some people without faith because certain assumptions (about which science has no say) necessarily creep into the logic. In short, there _is_ thinking on the part of the faithful, and to disparage them by claiming they are unreasoning fools, fit only for padded cells is short-sighted at best.
Sure, it has all those fancy features, but could it have sold for $10,000 in the 70's? Could it sell for $20,000 now? Did it cost a million per car in the 70's? Cost is an extremely important factor here.
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How am I supposed to watch a baby superhero parody without a link? There wasn't even movie or a summary. it's a one sentence page. kdawson needs a severe reprimand. Sic 'im Taco.
When they decide (are forced) to stop the activation service ten years from now, you won't be able to install Starcraft 2 anymore. I can play Starcraft still today.
This is awesome. I may not upgrade to iPhone OS 4. Oh wait, I can't anyway because I'm first gen. Then I guess I may not upgrade to a iPhone 4G. After this phone dies, I'll choose something more inter-operative like... anything.
I have spoken to a number of heads of IT about security. They seem to really hate Firefox with a strong passion.
Heads of IT as in managers, CIOs? Or heads of IT as in Senior Sysadmins? Most sysadmins don't mind scrambling when it means security is being increased. Most managers hate scrambling because it means overtime, and because they look bad because they aren't managing their people's time appropriately. In short, your "head of IT" friends are pointy haired bosses who don't like change.
FYI, as long as you know what you're doing, updating firefox on windows remotely for X machines doesn't require a mad scramble. Updates can be initiated via remotely triggered vbs or bat, and the update files can live on a central server. The only trick is killing all firefox processes first to make sure no one is using it while the update occurs (and that's not even difficult).
As long as they require iTunes, then there's a chance a developer might start buying songs or movies via iTunes, and Apple will get their sweet, sweet profit. Remember, restaurant managers dislike it when people order water. The food nets less profit than the drinks (even soda).
Sometimes we need to toughen up those pansy-ass dolphins, birds, and turtles. If we hadn't cuddled them for so long they wouldn't be going extinct. Adversity breeds strength.
And the same goes for you, Pandas. You're next! Oh, you'll be mating up a storm when we finish.
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Second, the colony never exceeded a population of about 4500 or so. Not only couldn't the land have supported the million you claim, if you tried to stuff that many people into the sites of the two settlements, they'd be standing on each other's toes.
Skraelings. Inuit, Thule, Dorset. Greenland/Canada weren't void of humans when the Vikings arrived.
I'm glad they've put a stop to it too.
Fucking Aragorn in the Hobbit. [...]
I knew Bilbo lived alone and never married, and took a young hobbit into his underground home to be his ward, but I thought the Batman parallels ended there. And wasn't Batman really straight anyway? I thought that the "Batman is gay" thing was a joke. And Aragorn is in love with Arwen. No, no. None of this adds up at all!
I'm afraid I just can't squeeze any more in.
<Connery> Well that'sh what your mother shaid lasht night! </Connery>
Was GP quoting you in his sig?
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Luke chapter 3 states that Jesus is the 75th generation after Adam. So if one even assume an average of 20 years per generation that would mean only 1500 years between Adam and Jesus. But the bible states that Adam lived to be over 800 years old and Noah lived close to 400 years old. But even giving a thousand years for each generation would only give 75,000 years between the first human and Jesus. Even that amount of time is not enough to explain how people got to all the far reaches of this planet and how there are different races. So one has to pick and choose what one believes from the bible since it is irrational to believe there were only 75 generations and that the flood covered the whole earth. To be rational and reasonable one would have to throw out a huge per cent of the bible which the early priest did not do.
So, you want to devolve a discussion of generic faith and rationality into a discussion of the internal consistency of the Abrahamic religious tradition? Okay. Genesis 11:9. It didn't take 1500 years to spread people across the world, nor 75,000. According to Genesis 11:9, God did it in an instant. The priests never threw out any percent of the Torah; they would have known the story of the Tower of Babel. Now can we get back on topic and discuss reason and faith, and how one does not negate the other?
The "Watch Video" link seemed pretty clear to me.
Not to me; I'm looking at it from a different computer now, and it still has no "Watch Video" link. FF 3.6.3
This is what I see:
Idle: Iron Baby on Friday May 28, @10:51AM
Posted by kdawson on Friday May 28, @10:51AM
from the energizer-bunnies-beware dept.
When Iron Baby wants O's, Iron Baby gets O's.
I dare anyone to name something as emotionally satisfying as facing a seemingly insurmountable problem...and then finding a solution.
In a nutshell, this is exactly what's wrong with the United States circa 2010. This is a ridiculously dominionist viewpoint, common among the Christian Right. In a politico-religious context, dominionism is the tendency among some conservative politically-active Christians to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action. The goal is either a nation governed by Christians, or a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law.
So guess what, fuck you and your polluting cars. Fuck you and your idea that anyone who doesn't share your viewpoint is an "insurmountable problem". As far as your idea of a "solution" goes, let's just hope it's not the "final" variety.
Reminder: Posting to Internet forums while drunk is never a good idea. Sober up and re-read GP's comment.
If he says "Sweet!" and starts getting interested in the mechanics of programs, you can show him something far easier to edit: uncompiled code. If he doesn't care about editing (or even modding) games, or editing any program for that matter, then he's not going to want to code either.
Faith makes a virtue out of not thinking.
That would be a surprising deduction to monks, theologians, and apologists of many faiths throughout the ages. Reason and rational thought are not the sole province of science. In fact, before the Enlightenment (in Europe), reason and rational thought were believed to be the province of priests and lawyers. Logic deals only with deduction based upon accepted assumptions. Assumptions about metaphysics are unprovable/unfalsifiable, so science can say nothing about it (the very topic of this article). Some people with faith will determine scientific results differently than some people without faith because certain assumptions (about which science has no say) necessarily creep into the logic. In short, there _is_ thinking on the part of the faithful, and to disparage them by claiming they are unreasoning fools, fit only for padded cells is short-sighted at best.
Sure, it has all those fancy features, but could it have sold for $10,000 in the 70's? Could it sell for $20,000 now? Did it cost a million per car in the 70's? Cost is an extremely important factor here.
How am I supposed to watch a baby superhero parody without a link? There wasn't even movie or a summary. it's a one sentence page. kdawson needs a severe reprimand. Sic 'im Taco.
When they decide (are forced) to stop the activation service ten years from now, you won't be able to install Starcraft 2 anymore. I can play Starcraft still today.
how can people find satisfaction in making clones of games?
Because the official Tetris app costs $10 and the clones are free (gifts to the world)?
This is awesome. I may not upgrade to iPhone OS 4. Oh wait, I can't anyway because I'm first gen. Then I guess I may not upgrade to a iPhone 4G. After this phone dies, I'll choose something more inter-operative like... anything.
I have spoken to a number of heads of IT about security. They seem to really hate Firefox with a strong passion.
Heads of IT as in managers, CIOs? Or heads of IT as in Senior Sysadmins? Most sysadmins don't mind scrambling when it means security is being increased. Most managers hate scrambling because it means overtime, and because they look bad because they aren't managing their people's time appropriately. In short, your "head of IT" friends are pointy haired bosses who don't like change.
FYI, as long as you know what you're doing, updating firefox on windows remotely for X machines doesn't require a mad scramble. Updates can be initiated via remotely triggered vbs or bat, and the update files can live on a central server. The only trick is killing all firefox processes first to make sure no one is using it while the update occurs (and that's not even difficult).
Hasn't anyone else noticed that the last few big adobe patches were on MS patch Tuesdays?
As long as they require iTunes, then there's a chance a developer might start buying songs or movies via iTunes, and Apple will get their sweet, sweet profit. Remember, restaurant managers dislike it when people order water. The food nets less profit than the drinks (even soda).
Someone watched to many episodes of Captain Planet.
Yeah, Ted Turner.
With great power comes great responsibility... this is the rule I want enforced.
Then you should start mass producing irradiated/gene-spliced spiders and release them into high schools.
I'm just glad nobody has mentioned nukes yet...
Is there a word for a miniature Streisand effect? Is it like a Knights Who Say Ni effect?
With Apple, a slick shiny black surface is a feature, not a problem.
Put an Apple logo sticker on the Gulf of Mexico and call it a day?
They could, as a service to the online community, go ahead and post the usernames that are compromised.
Along with the passwords. Because, um, then we'd know if the thieves have old creds? Yeah, that's the reason.
Sometimes we need to toughen up those pansy-ass dolphins, birds, and turtles. If we hadn't cuddled them for so long they wouldn't be going extinct. Adversity breeds strength.
And the same goes for you, Pandas. You're next! Oh, you'll be mating up a storm when we finish.
What's Panda for "snu snu"?
Jack: This is Jack Thompson.
Gamer: What's this I hear about video games?
Jack: They cause violent tendencies! Gamer: In your dreams!
And they were both right. Sorry I doubted you, Jack.
[Obama] wanted people to get involved in government again.
And do what, vote?
No, he wants people to apply government jobs and/or government cheese.
Are there any projections/estimates related to how stable this media would be when used for long-term archival storage?
If the state changes in light, then there are some rules to follow: